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Healthy OnesA Supports The Breast Cancer Research Foundation in October

2014-10-16 23:32:32| Food - Topix.net

Healthy Ones wants consumers to know, "You Can" support Breast Cancer Research and is making it easy for them to do so. Through the month of October, in grocery stores across the country, consumers can look for the pink packaging of Healthy Ones tub lunchmeat along with pink signage at the deli counter.

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Mack Showcases Pink Truck for Breast Cancer Awareness

2014-10-16 19:41:05| Automakers - Topix.net

Mack Trucks Inc. is displaying a pink Pinnacle Axle Back model at its headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina, to help increase breast cancer awareness. The pink Pinnacle will be on display through October and is one of the activities the manufacturer has planned to raise awareness including a 5-kilometer run, walk and encouraging employees to wear pink on Fridays.

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Could RFID Tech Improve Breast Cancer Surgery?

2014-10-16 06:50:56| rfglobalnet Home Page

University of Wisconsin researchers are currently working on using implantable radio frequency identification (RFID) chips to guide surgeons to a tumor’s location. They believe that the technology has the potential to replace painful and less accurate wire localization methods.

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Pfizer and breast cancer leaders join together to increase...

2014-10-13 14:10:05| Biotech - Topix.net

Pfizer Inc. is uniting with leaders in the breast cancer community in a public call-to-action to expand the breast cancer dialogue to include metastatic breast cancer. This comes after a first-of-its-kind survey commissioned by Pfizer revealed that many people know little to nothing about metastatic breast cancer - the most advanced stage of breast cancer , in which cancer has spread beyond the breast to other organs in the body.2,3 "With the public breast cancer conversation focused primarily on early detection and survivorship, metastatic patients often feel misunderstood and isolated from the larger breast cancer community," said Shirley Mertz, president, Metastatic Breast Cancer Network .

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